Working with party list type in MS CRM 2011

PartyList : This is a data type available in MS crm.

It is almost a lookup that can have references to more than one records of an entity for a single field.

A partylist has certain attributes like name, id, type,typename etc.

So the basic operation for such a field will be to retrieve or set the values.

As partylist is not a normal type like integer or string type we need to have arrays to get/set the values.

To retrieve values by jscript:

var partylistItem = new Array;

//get the items/values in a field named"resources"

partylistItem = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("resources").getValue();

Thus now the array holds all the items/record referenced for a single field

.

we may have a loop through this array to retrieve the values like,

partylistItem.length - gives how many records are referenced.

partylistItem[0].id - the guid of the item.

To set values by jscript :

To set values we also need to get an array.

var partlistset= new Array();
partlistset[0] = new Object();
partlistset[0].id = id; // provide a guid type value
partlistset[0].name = name; // provide a suitable name
partlistset[0].entityType = entityType; // provide the entity name of the item ie account/ contact etc .
Xrm.Page.getAttribute("resource").setValue(partlistset);

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Author: Pallavi Kar

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